Research Details

  • Research Name : Africa Amanzi Solutions
  • Client : Intellectual Media Group
  • Category : Soil Testing for Construction Site
  • Research Year : April, 2012
  • Location : Albertsdal, Johannesburg
  • Delivery Mode : Market Price

About this Test

  • Moisture content by oven-drying method
  • Liquid limit by Cassagrande apparatus method
  • Liquid limit by cone penetrometer method
  • Plastic limit and plasticity index
  • Shrinkage characteristics by linear shrinkage
  • Density by linear measurement method

Soil strength test methods used

  • Unconfined compressive strength
  • Shear strength by laboratory vane method
  • Undrained shear strength in triaxial compression (without pore pressure measurement)
  • Undrained shear strength in triaxial compression with multistage loading (without pore pressure measurement)
  • Consolidated-undrained triaxial compression with pore pressure measurement
  • Consolidated-drained triaxial compression with measurement of volume change
  • Unconsolidated-undrained triaxial compression test with pore pressure measurement
  • Determination of shear strength by direct shear